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I am 34 weeks with a baby presenting breech for multiple weeks now, I was talking to my mom about an ecv and she has successfully talked me out of it. She had an ecv done with me (20 yrs ago) and with my little sister (4 yrs ago) and said if she had the choice again she wouldn't do it. She said it was very painful and both me and my sister flipped back to breech not even a day after the procedure and she had to have a c-section. In the process of the ecv my little sister bruised my moms ribs which took weeks before she felt better. Also there are risks associated with the ecv, that is why it is done in an operating room with a medical team ready to perform an emergency c-section. There is a chance that your little one can get tangled in the cord, or knock the placenta loose which would mean your little one could not survive long in the womb and must be taken out. By UGR do you mean you have intrauterine growth restriction? Both that and diabetes makes a vaginal delivery hard as is.

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